Comments on: Stilgherrian Live (Metro Screen) Special, with Cnuts

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:19:37 +0000

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Stilgherrian · Today’s “Stilgherrian Live” is elsewhere — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:59:24 +0000

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By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:52:52 +0000

@Ben: Now that I’ve edited the timestamp on my last comment to reflect when nominations actually closed, I see that you missed the deadline. But you should be happy with that, because otherwise I would taunt you mercilessly for thinking that “being stupid” is even remotely an example of “futilely holding back the tide of change”.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:10:19 +0000

I nominate Today FM for being stupid. @yin_yin agrees.

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:00:41 +0000

Nominations are now closed. I’ll be choosing the shortlist tomorrow morning and you can vote in the final poll during the program from 2pm Sydney time on Friday. Thank you!

By: Bob Bain

Bob Bain — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:37:20 +0000

I have already nominated “the designers of the “name the new creamy Vegemite” page at http://www.vegemite.com.au given the fact I had to ring technical support for assistance.”

Having submitted an excellent name I have reviewed their terms and conditions.

Condition 14

14.The entrant whose entry is chosen by the judging panel may be invited by the Promoter to participate in a media campaign (as determined by the Promoter), including but not limited to, being interviewed and photographed, filmed and/or chaperoned, and having their name and photograph published in any newspapers, publications, the Kraft newsletter or press releases, at the absolute discretion of the Promoter.

By submitting an entry, entrants agree that if their entry is chosen by the judging panel, they will participate in and co-operate as required with all reasonable media editorial requests made by the Promoter. The Promoter will not pay the entrant any monetary prize, fee or compensation for their entry.

The Promoter is not obliged to invite the entrant whose entry is chosen to participate in any such media campaign and the invitation is at the absolute discretion of the Promoter.

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Huh. NO MONETARY PRIZE NO FEE NO COMPENSATION

but…

..the winner is obliged under the terms and conditions to “co-operate as required” with all media requrests made by the Promoter – being interviewed, photographed, filmed and/or chaperoned and having their name and photograph published in any newspaper, publication, the Kraft newsletter or press releases.

By: Tarale

Tarale — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:23:36 +0000

I nominate Facebook for trying to change their service to something it’s not…by overriding everyone’s security/privacy settings.

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:17:39 +0000

@Zombie_Plan: While this does not invalidate your nomination in the least, the reason for the long lead time is that I have to prepare the graphics for the “Cnut of the Week” shortlist tonight so they can be loaded into Metro Screen’s production system first thing in the morning, in turn so the brand-new crew can do their technical rehearsals through the morning.

In a regular program with a regular crew, sure, we could load them in during the last hour. But this is my help-the-process-of-education wonderfulness in action… or something.

By: Dave from Albury

Dave from Albury — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:41:26 +0000

I’d like to nominate ACMA and 2Day FM for their wonderfully antiquated complaints process, where if you want to want to vent your spleen over the vile inappropriateness that is Kyle and Jackie-O you have to download a form and fax it to the station. I’m pretty sure I had a form on my ‘personal web-site’ circa 1995 that would email me, surely 2Day FM can manage that?

So, for their commitment to stifling communication, ACMA and 2Day FM are my nominations for cnut of the week.

By: Zombie_Plan

Zombie_Plan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:51:56 +0000

I nominate Stilgherrian for this tweet stopping nominations a whole 17 hours earlier than normal, guaranteeing something amazing will be in the news tomorrow that we can't nominate. That is all.

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Stilgherrian · “Stilgherrian Live” rehearsals have gone well — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:50:49 +0000

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By: Jinjirrie

Jinjirrie — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:32:56 +0000

Hereby I nominate Robert McClellan for CNUT of the week for his lofty work extending Australian counter-terrorism laws “targeting those who radicalise people, then try to tip them over the edge into launching an attack based on political views, ethnicity or religion”

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/29/2640188.htm

while singling out the Islamic community for special treatment.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25817921-5013871,00.html

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:25:49 +0000

Nominations will close tonight at 8pm Sydney time!

By: grum

grum — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:07:28 +0000

I nominate Horizon Realty for suing someone for $50,000 over a tweet that would have been seen by about 20 people. http://mashable.com/2009/07/28/woman-sued-tweet/

By: Venise Alstergren

Venise Alstergren — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:49:50 +0000

I apologize for being pedantic; however, I failed to state it was Tony Abbott’s book as being the particular origin of my ire.